Archive for March, 2023
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 26, 2023
The Assault Weapons Ban Worked. Dubya And The Rethugs Did Away With It. Lawrence O’Donnell: https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-police-were-afraid-of-the-uvalde-gunman-s-ar-15-166823493564 The blood of the Uvalde students is on their hands. Where the fuck was that ‘well-regulated militia’? Afroman Victim Of Police Home Invasion. Cops End Up In Music Vid. Cops Sue For ‘Emotional Distress’. I can’t make this stuff […]
Caution – Thought provoking material ahead
If you don’t like thinking or having your thoughts provoked, don’t listen to this Highlands Bunker episode.
Public Defender Misty Seemans joins Rob in the bunker to talk about LEOBOR reform: her series on it, where it stands right now, and what the best strategies are to make it happen.
Show Notes:
Hey Coons and Carper – Thanks for the expensive medical insurance that sucks ass
Better get out and enjoy this beautiful day. You don’t have many beautiful days left. Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for a nearly unprecedented second year in a row – down to 76 years. While countries all over the world saw life expectancy rebound during the second […]
Song of the Day 3/25: Elvis Costello, “(I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea”
“Ted Lasso” has legions of fans, but I seldom hear anyone mention its savvy use of popular music. Most shows nowadays mine the charts for songs that will heighten a scene’s impact, but I don’t know of any others that employed musicians who are real-life buskers, as the show has in its first two seasons. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 25, 2023
‘The Second Amendment Grants You The Right To Have Your Gun Stolen’. Because you have the freedom to not lock your car and/or your glove gun compartment: In a country awash with guns, with more firearms than people, the parked car, or in many cases the parked pickup truck, has become a new flashpoint in the […]
All of the unhinged fascist legislation proposed by Ron DeSantis in one list
The toxicity of worldview, and malevolent energy of this list is impressive. The Florida Legislature, a body controlled by Republicans for over two decades, has ceased to function as an independent body and instead serves as a rubber stamp for Ron DeSantis. The result of this one party rule now completely steered by the whims […]
Severe Damaging Tornadoes & Storms Now a Weekly Occurrence
I’m not trying to be alarmist, but a trillion-dollars federal bail out of the insurance industry seems inevitable. Insurance company profits must be protected, because …reasons.
The Normalizer King
Greed, racism, outright lying, treason, punching down… of all the things that Trump has normalized, this post from the Rude Pundit got me thinking the least toxic thing Trump has normalized for Republicans might be porn.
Song of the Day 3/24: Monty Python, “The Penis Song”
Satire died a good while back, which is the only way you can tell this story is true: A principal in Florida got fired when a parent complained about an art teacher showing the class a photograph of Michelangelo’s David. The parent called it “pornographic.” The part that makes it art, or at least performance […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 24, 2023
Marcus Henry Vs. Karen Hartley-Nagle: Looks like one of them will be our Next County Executive. Henry is already campaigning, KHN put out an announcement yesterday: “I’m good at what I do, (being sued?) and experience matters,” she says. “And I believe that my experience is what sets me apart. As the president of New […]
Comment Rescue: As DEGOP continues to make school board elections partisan – Democrats need to rally
It is no secret that the DEGOP is trying to partisan-ize Delaware school board elections and thereby turn Delaware school districts into Florida-style racist, right-wing, homophobic and transphobic ideological gulags. So far they’ve met with little success, but white christian nationalism never sleeps. Big elections in Red Clay school board this year. 13th Republican Carlucci […]
Groping desperately for an excuse to ban mifepristone nationally, Trump judge Matthew Kacsmaryk may rule that the drug is obscene
There is something obscene about religious zealots being allowed to make healthcare decisions for the entire country.
Abortion pill mifepristone ruling in Texas case could hinge on 1873 Comstock Act
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U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk raised the Comstock Act repeatedly in last week’s hearing in the case challenging FDA approval of mifepristone.
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The 1873 Comstock Act declared “obscene” materials as not mailable, including drugs advertised for use in abortions.
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The Comstock Act hasn’t been enforced in decades. The DOJ says it doesn’t ban mail delivery of mifepristone, citing court cases that narrowed the law’s scope.
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But Kacsmaryk could potentially issue an order invoking the Comstock Act to roll back FDA regulatory changes that allowed mifepristone mail delivery.
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